Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters - Softcover

"Along with the story of how black journalists manage to function, "Dateline Soweto is also a fascinating history of the South African press. . . . Finnegan deftly articulates the delicate status of black reporters working for the white press in two wonderful chapters [which] while dealing specifically with the situation of South African journalists, could well be required reading for their American counterparts."--Jill Nelson, "Washington Post Book World

"Dateline Soweto" documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue.